[Zope3-Users] Re: Re: Blobs in Z3 anyone?

[Chris McDonough]

In z3, apparently you just return a file from your code and the  
publisher knows enough to send it efficiently.

- C

On Apr 20, 2006, at 8:15 AM, David Pratt wrote:

> Hi Chris. This is great! I'll check this out. It would be great  
> however if I could get a clearer picture of large file handling in  
> Z3. Is there an equivalent IStreamIterator in Z3 or not? I am still  
> trying to determine this from the dialog. If not, can someone  
> please explain what had been built into Z3 to handle this. Storage  
> is one half the solution and transporting the file the other half.
>
> Regards,
> David
>
>> Sure.  The best way to help is for people to try it out.  There is  
>> a Zope 2 branch in SVN named http://svn.zope.org/Zope/branches/ 
>> blob-integration-test that I believe has its externals set right  
>> to include the "blob-aware" version of ZODB.  You should be able  
>> to check it out and just run it.  There are examples of blob usage  
>> in the ZODB/Blobs/tests/test_basic.txt .
>